Energy Balance, Carbon Emissions and Climate Change - Some Hard Choices for Asia
Article from: OGEL 4 (2007), in Energy Security
Introduction
Access to plentiful supplies of affordable energy is a key requirement for sustainable economic and social development in all emerging nations, and nowhere more so than in Asia. Global primary energy demand is expected in the reference scenario of the International Energy Agency (IEA) to increase by 1.6% per annum from 2004 to 2030, growing from 11.2 billion tones of oil equivalent (btoe) to 17.1 btoe in 2030, more than a 50% increase in total (IEA World Energy Outlook-WEO, 2006). 70% of this increase in energy demand is forecast to come from developing countries with 48.9% coming from ...